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Solution: don’t let police have your data
They’re not asking you. They’re asking the companies
The real solution is for companies to ask for the name of the officer, and then go to the official police website, call their non emergency number, and ask to speak with the officer. Then confirm that it was them, in fact, that sent the request.
Bonus: then tell them to get a fucking warrant and hang up the phone.
Right? Like “make sure you get a warrant” isn’t a hard answer.
TFA has an example of a fake warrant being used and the fake being clearly fake but accepted anyways.
I know a few people who happily have ring doorbells in their house as cheap cameras and don’t seem to care at all that all an officer has to do to get INTERIOR footage of their house is to ask for it and they get it no questions asked.
I hadn’t even thought of how easy that makes it for non officers to just do the same thing.
I’d trust the “non officers” more than the officers in most scenarios.
Very true!
At least non-cops can only scope out your place for a future robbing, be a perv or plan to blackmail you.
An officer can do all that and also kill you with an almost 0% chance of facing any consequences!